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when using the docker container, is there a way to not jump into python when it is launched?

Hi Alex, not sure of the context you’re working with, but you can interact with docker containers in many ways.  I generally prefer using `run -it` / `exec -it`:
```docker run -it prefecthq/prefect echo 'hi'
docker exec -it prefecthq/prefect bash```

when i run it via `docker run -it prefecthq/prefect:latest`  it loads to a python prompt

correct because you didn’t specify a command, therefore it will use the default command for that image which is `python`

for context, I wanted to run prefect within a docker container so that my team was always working with the most up-to-date version. The idea would be to mount anything needed and then when developing jump in the container so that the workflow is OS agnostic

```dbt_image:
      image: &lt;internal dbt-image&gt;image:latest
      environment:
        DBT_PROFILES_DIR: /usr/local/dbt_profiles/
        SNOWFLAKE_SNAPSHOT_DATABASE: "SNOWFLAKE"
        SNOWFLAKE_LOAD_DATABASE: "RAW"
        SNOWFLAKE_TRANSFORM_WAREHOUSE: "ANALYST_XS"
      restart: always
      command: bash -c "/bin/bash"
      working_dir: /usr/local/analytics/transform/snowflake-dbt/
      volumes:
        - type: bind
          source: .
          target: /usr/local/analytics
        - type: bind
          source: ${DBT_PROFILE_PATH}
          target: /usr/local/dbt_profiles/
          read_only: True```

but this is from our docker-compose file for dbt, which we spin up and then work out of, and wanted to do something similar

ah ok awesome, yea that should be doable for prefect for sure

however, when i try to run `prefect server start`  inside the container i get errors such as ‘No such file or directory: ip’

`docker run -it -p 8080:8080 prefecthq/prefect:latest bash`

Check out these issues for that error: <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/issues?q=is%3Aissue+such+file+or+directory%3A+ip%E2%80%99+is%3Aclosed>

i see that a flag was added but i dont see any documentation about how to enable it

the one introduced in this PR <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/pull/2433>

the error i was getting seems to be that the contained docker instance cant find the right network, and there was a flag established to toggle that check